It's a tight squeeze side to side and I'm a little concerned that once I put the extra blocking piece between the stringers and the sides in that it won't fit at all. That may necessitate cutting it in two pieces but I'll worry about that later.
In the meantime I cut and trimmed six more blocking pieces, three for each side, using the pattern that I'd used for the pieces further forward in the hull and temporarily set them in place.
There's much more space between these, but as I'm using 3/4" ply instead of 1/2" I think I'll be ok.
Last I cut strips of 1/2" plywood, epoxied and screwed two to the stringers on each side. I took the 15 degree piece I cut off the 3/4" plywood for the deck and cut three pieces to length and epoxied and screwed them to the transom.
You'll notice that the strips of 1/2" on the stringers stair step and only go part way forward. That's because I haven't built the rear bulkhead yet and as it will sit directly on the stringers the rest of the 1/2' strips will have to wait to be cut to length to butt up against the bulkhead.
We've had a few days of warmer weather, wind and rain and that has cleared the snow on the beach and today was real nice so I took all the scrap lumber and cardboard down to the fire ring for another bonfire.
Afterwards I installed the hinges on the hatches, the door for the rope locker, the door in the forward bulkhead and the grate on the port side. My knees were hurting so I called it a day.
Tomorrow I'll start work on the rear bulkhead. While it will look simple when finished I suspect it will be a real pain to construct. We'll see.
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